Classic Guide Spotlight: Lower Blackrock Spire Strategy Guide

In today's guide spotlight we will highlight our new Lower Blackrock Spire Guide, written by Quissy. The guide covers everything you need to know about Lower Blackrock Spire (or LBRS), including how to reach the instance, bosses, loot, quests in the dungeon, and how to complete any attunements that happen within the dungeon.\r\rClick here to check out the detailed Lower Blackrock Spire Strategy Guide\r\rLBRS is a 5-player dungeon located in the Blackrock Mountain, between Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes. Within Blackrock Mountain, you will need to ascend a set of chains all the way to a balcony overlooking Blackrock Mountain, where the dungeon entrance is located. Lower Blackrock Spire is intended for levels 55-60 players, but it is generally recommended to not run this dungeon until at least level 57, as the final bosses are level 62.\r\rBlackrock Spire is divided into two sections: Lower and Upper. The Lower portion is unlocked and the first portion players can run. LBRS has a total of 9 bosses, and an additional 5 bosses that are rare spawns.\r\rLower Blackrock Spire is considered to be the first dungeon players will run after hitting 60: The dungeon has a lot of good drops for all classes, including several pieces of Tier 0 gear. It is also necessary to run the dungeon to eventually complete the Печать вознесения, necessary to open the Upper part of Blackrock Spire.\r\r\rDid you enjoy this news article? Receive instant notifications when the latest news is published through the Wowhead Discord Webhook and join the community with Wowhead's Discord Server, Twitter, and Facebook.

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Комментарий от Sielinth

Комментарий от Vidrax

on 2019-08-18T03:55:44-05:00

huh, wasn't it a 10man in vanlia?

oh capped at 10man according to wiki... i see...

UBRS and LBRS are the same dungeon, just two different wings of the instance. For UBRS you need ten people, whereas LBRS is tuned for a group of five. Running the latter with 10 players would be trivially easy, but would result in half the loot per player.

Комментарий от lovelywaz

on 2019-08-18T04:03:08-05:00

huh, wasn't it a 10man in vanlia?\r\roh capped at 10man according to wiki... i see...\r\rUBRS and LBRS are the same dungeon, just two different wings of the instance. For UBRS you need ten people, whereas LBRS is tuned for a group of five. Running the latter with 10 players would be trivially easy, but would result in half the loot per player.\r\rYou also need the key to open the door for UBRS. Also, LBRS was indeed tuned for 10-man group at launch but sometime later they lowered the difficulty for 5-man groups but the size cap remained 10 and it was a lot quicker to zerg through for raid attunements with few geared people in 10-man groups.

Комментарий от Neryssa

on 2019-08-18T09:16:04-05:00

huh, wasn't it a 10man in vanlia?\r\roh capped at 10man according to wiki... i see...\r\rLBRS was originally tuned to 10-man but it was nerfed to better accommodate 5-man groups sometime during Vanilla (don't remember the exact patch right now, just woke up). People would still try to run it as a 5-man to complete quests (such as the Seal of Ascension quests) pre-nerf. \r\rThe Classic version of LBRS will already have that nerf in place, hence why we recommend to run it as a 5-man! You can definitely still run it as a 10-man if you wish, though, but you won't be able to complete quests in a 10-man group.

Комментарий от PleegWat

on 2019-08-18T09:53:05-05:00

As I recall, the BRS dungeon as a whole has had 3 different caps over the duration of classic. At launch, dungeons weren't capped separately at all, so you could enter with a raid of 40.\rAt some point after, dungeon caps were introduced and most dungeons were capped at 10 players. (U)BRS however was capped at 15. I distinctly remember running UBRS in groups maxed to the 15-player cap.\rAt some even later point, the BRS cap was reduced to 10 players.